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Family History/Demography Network
Network Representives
Lisa Dillon
Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Please note: A new list of proposed sessions for the 2007 Family/Demography Network will be posted very soon!
Call for Papers, 2007 Annual Meeting
November 15-18, 2007 Chicago, Illinois
As in the past, the Family History/Demography Network will sponsor several dozen panels. If you have a suggestion for a panel, please contact either of the network representatives listed above. By December 15, 2006, we will post below a list of proposed panels for the 2007 meeting, and contact information for the panel organizers. If you are interested in presenting a paper in one of these sessions, please contact the session organizer directly.
The Family History/Demography Network also encourages other panel and single paper submissions. If submitting a single paper, please contact the network representatives listed above. All proposals must be submitted electronically at www.ssha.org. The submission deadline is February 15, 2007. A detailed description of SSHA guidelines is available.
Network suggestions: (also available in PDF format)
Social Science History Association Conference
Chicago, November 15-18, 2007
Family/Demography Network Suggestions
N.B. the European-SSHA Call for Papers is now being circulated.
- Clustering of infant mortality outside Sweden. Sheila Johanssen, srjdavid@aol.com
- Marriage in East Asia (Korea, Japan). Cameron Campbell, camcam@ucla.edu
- Intergenerational processes in demography. Göran Broström, gb@stat.umu.se
- Session in James Lee’s relationship between socio-economic status and demography, mortality. Richard Wall, richardw@essex.ac.uk
- Impact of kin on demographic behaviour. Hilde Bras and Michel Oris. haj.bras@fsw.vu.nl
- Family territories and migration. Hilde Bras and Jan Kok haj.bras@fsw.vu.nl co-organize with migration network.
- Comparative panel on remarriage and social differentiation (using big, new databases). Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, fauve@msh-paris.fr
- Aging in a long-term perspective. Anders Brändström, anders.brandstrom@ddb.umu.se
- Social, demographic and economic consequences of pandemics, past and present. Elisabeth Engberg, elisabeth.engberg@ddb.umu.se
- Long-Run Changes in Marriage Patterns/The Preventative Check in the Context of Industrialization? David Hacker, hacker@binghamton.edu
- Fertility past and present, historical and contemporary comparisons. Stefan Warg, Stefan.Warg@ddb.umu.se
- Reconstruction of family economy and intrafamilial collaboration (gender) Beatrice Moring, bke.moring@ntlworld.com
- Demographic measures of cultural change. (co-organize with Culture network?) Nathan Lauster, nlauster@interchange.ubc.ca
- Effects of disciplinary canons on approaches to demographic data. Bruce Fetter, bruf@uwm.edu
- Disputes within the family, law courts. Philip Scofield, prs@aber.ac.uk
- Ethnic differences in marriage practice. Gabriella Edholm, Gabriella.Edholm@ddb.umu.se
- Databases for demographic research in 20th century. Hannah Brueckner, Hannah.Brueckner@yale.edu
- Mortality of indigenous populations (try to get different indigenous groups covered). Per Axelsson, Per.Axelsson@ddb.umu.se
- Socioeconomic differences in mortality. Tommy Bengtsson, Tommy.Bengtsson@ekh.lu.se
- What’s up with American demographic exceptionalism? Do the interpretations of mortality, marriage and fertility patterns emphasize exceptionalism? Sheila Johansson, srjdavid@aol.com
- What can we still learn from ecological analysis? John Craig, j-craig@uchicago.edu
- Demography and GIS. co-organize with Historical Geography network Michael Haines, mhaines@mail.colgate.edu
- Historical demography and sexual relations, sexual behaviour. Lisa Dillon, ly.dillon@umontreal.ca
- Non-nuclear households in the past. Lisa Dillon, ly.dillon@umontreal.ca
(Suggested paper by Richard Wall: 'Life course and socio-economic perspectives on No Family households' and suggested paper by Beatrice Moring: 'Lodging and inter-generational support -- female household strategies')